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Question
In No Man Rules the Spirit you occasionally write that most intellectual principles were not received from Sinai, but are products of various ideas developed by people who lived in different environments.
And I didn’t understand: even if they had been received from Sinai, you explained that there is no authority even formally regarding facts?
Answer
No—not “not even formally,” but דווקא formally. If something were received from Sinai, that would convince me and I would therefore accept it. That is substantive authority, not formal authority.